{"id":64526,"date":"2015-06-09T11:02:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T15:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=64526"},"modified":"2015-06-09T06:01:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T10:01:48","slug":"think-pimps-abusers-deserve-hand-tax-dollars-giving-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/think-pimps-abusers-deserve-hand-tax-dollars-giving-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Think pimps and abusers deserve a hand? Your tax dollars are giving them one."},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s not always easy to spot a coherent rationale behind government policy. That shouldn\u2019t be surprising—a lot of times there isn\u2019t one. Consider how the government handles tobacco.<\/p>\n

For decades, the federal government spent money on a program<\/a> to make tobacco farms more profitable. The tobacco they produced was then turned into cigarettes.\u00a0 What happened when those cigarettes hit store shelves? The government spent even more money encouraging people not to buy them.<\/p>\n

This sort of logic isn\u2019t confined to smoking. When it comes to abuse and human trafficking, Uncle Sam takes a similar approach. On one hand, money is spent going after those who perpetrate the violence. On the other, it also goes to an organization that helps them get away with it.<\/p>\n

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Pimps see women and girls as a source of revenue, so pregnancy can be a problem.\u00a0 Unfortunately, a coerced abortion is often the solution.\u00a0 Captain Jeff Williams of the Dallas Department of Public Safety testified<\/a> about that last year before Texas\u2019 Joint Interim Committee to Study Human Trafficking.\u00a0 The anti-trafficking group A21 Campaign<\/a> has put out a video in which former trafficking victim Nicole talks about what the experience is like.<\/p>\n